The result is a demand for more personalized learning, brain-friendly environments, less recall and more thoughtful application of knowledge, optimal conditions for eliciting intelligent behaviors, constructivist tools, and respectful, caring relationships that honor the learner.” – Thom Markham The impetus for the cultural shift that Markham describes in Redefining Smart: Awakening Students’ Power to Reimagine Their World is well-documented.

Throughout the month, Bill will be sharing his vision of how technology will revolutionize life for the world's poor by 2030 by narrating episodes of the Big Future, our animated explainer series. In addition, we'll be publishing a series of features exploring the improvements in banking, health, farming, and education that will enable that revolution.

And while the topics reflect the bets Bill and his wife Melinda are making with their foundation, they've asked us for nothing less than fully independent Verge journalism, which we're more than happy to deliver. Turns out Bill Gates is a pretty confident guy.
Assessing What Your Students Know, Want to Know, and Learned. Measuring student success is a top priority to ensure the best possible student outcomes.

Through the years instructors have implemented new and creative strategies to assess student learning in both traditional and online higher education classrooms. Assessments can range from formative assessments, which monitor student learning with quick, efficient, and frequent checks on learning; to summative assessments, which evaluate student learning with “high stakes” exams, projects, and papers at the end of a unit or term. One way to measure student learning quickly and efficiently is to use KWLs. Created by Donna Ogle, the letters KWL stand for “what we know”, what we want to know”, and “what we learned” (Ogle, 1986). This type of assessment is fantastic for instructors to gauge each student’s prior knowledge.

The KWLs also fall into a category of formative assessment Clariana and Koul (2005) categorize as “multiple try feedback”. How do we implement KWLs in the online classroom?
Dynamiser vos cours magistraux à l’aide des TRC. Here’s What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official. Photo Three years ago, technology was going to transform higher education.

What happened? Over the course of a few months in early 2012, leading scientists from Harvard, Stanford and M.I.T. started three companies to provide Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. The courses were free. Millions of students signed up. But today, enrollment in traditional colleges remains robust, and undergraduates are paying higher tuition and taking out larger loans than ever before. The failure of MOOCs to disrupt higher education has nothing to do with the quality of the courses themselves, many of which are quite good and getting better. Now information technology is poised to transform college degrees. Traditional college degrees represent several different kinds of information. Degrees give meaning and structure to collections of college courses.

College degrees are also required to get graduate degrees.
Presentation Tips and Resources. The Socratic Method. The Socratic Method:Teaching by Asking Instead of by Tellingby Rick Garlikov The following is a transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school.

I present my perspective and views on the session, and on the Socratic method as a teaching tool, following the transcript. The class was conducted on a Friday afternoon beginning at 1:30, late in May, with about two weeks left in the school year. This time was purposely chosen as one of the most difficult times to entice and hold these children's concentration about a somewhat complex intellectual matter. The point was to demonstrate the power of the Socratic method for both teaching and also for getting students involved and excited about the material being taught.
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Boot camp classes may offer a peek at the future of higher ed. It seemed like a classic utopian vision.

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Minecraft in Education — Why Minecraft Rewrites the Playbook for Learning. Embracing Participatory Culture in Education - Alexey Zagalsky. "It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.
" GitHub is on the brink of growing from a platform for software projects, and into a mainstream collaboration platform for other domains as well.

An unexpected area where GitHub’s collaborative workflow holds the potential to bring groundbreaking changes is education and learning. In fact, educators have already begun to use GitHub to support teaching and learning. Beyond Software Development GitHub is a popular Web-based social code sharing service that utilizes the Git distributed version control system.